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Completed matching lily capitals and pomegranate rows; full numerical details in Scripture.
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1 Kings 7:19-20

Lily-shaped capitals

Palace and Temple Furnishings · 1 Kings 7

Story guide: The pillar tops bloom as lily-shaped capitals ringed with rows of pomegranates; the passage's full measurements and the count of two hundred are not all shown.

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19And the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars were made like a lily blossom in the portico, four cubits.

20And the capitals were on the two pillars, also above, opposite the bulge that was beside the latticework; and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows all around, on the second capital.

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